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Close reading is creative reading
Edited by Oli Belas
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Articles
Editorial Open Access: available for non-members
Oliver Belas
Introducing the Close Reading Archive
Scott Newstok
Scott Newstok, creator of the Close Reading Archive, explains the genesis of the Archive in relation – one might say a relation of close reading – to the work of John Guillory.
Getting up close
Catherine Clarke
Drawing on her new book, A History of England in 25 Poems, Catherine Clarke reflects on what it means to close-read our way into history.
Empathy, Narrative and Cultural Values: the potential of unseen passages in the diverse classroom Open Access: available for non-members
Peter Morey, Eva Momtaz, Vanessa Havill (University of Birmingham), Amina Yaqin, and Farah Nazir (University of Exeter)
This article reports on an AHRC-sponsored project investigating reading and storytelling processes among minority ethnic students in the final years of secondary education in the West Midlands.
Making close reading creative (for Key Stages 1 – 3)
Bob Cox
This article makes the case for linking in-depth close reading with built-in whole-text encounters and writing; to giving a more coherent place in the teaching of English to ‘curious explorations’; and to starting young.
Welcome to the (reading) party: developing close reading skills in the classroom
Nicola Darwood
In this article I reflect on the ways in which close reading skills can be developed among undergraduate English students and postgraduate, trainee primary teachers, in order to promote both criticality and pleasure in reading.
Up close and personal: close reading in the secondary classroom
Rachel Roberts
Close reading, probably the most frequently employed classroom activity in subject English, can obscure students’ own personal responses to text. How reading is framed in the English classroom, and how close reading might be modelled, can have a real impact on students’ capabilities and confidence in textual analysis and should be of interest to all English teachers in the Secondary phase.
Close reading, linguistics, & poetic practice: A conversation with Katie O’Pray
Katie O’Pray and Oli Belas
This article is based on a recorded interview/conversation, the starting-point of which was the possibility for thinking of poetic practice as a form of close reading.
Blackout Poetry and GCSE resits: A view from Further Education
Hayley Jarman, Gavin Perry, and Rebecca Fisher
Two Further Education practitioners discuss English GCSE resits, with a particular focus on the use of blackout poetry.
News and Views
The winners of the Betty Haigh Shakespeare Prize Open Access: available for non-members
Enjoy reading the winning and highly-commended entries
What can you do with an English degree? A new essay competition for English students
Find out about this pilot project, a collaboration between the EA and the University of Cambridge
